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Encyclopedia Britannica



POLIGNY

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 981 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
POLIGNY , a town of eastern France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Jura, 18 m. N. N.E. of Lons-le-Saunier on the Paris-Lyons railway. Pop. (1906), 3756. The town lies in the valley of the Glantine at the base of a hill crowned by the ruins of the old castle of Grimont, once the repository of the archives of the county of
Burgundy
 . The
church
  of Montivillard, its most remarkable building,
dates
  in the oldest portions. from the 12th
century
 , its
chief
  features being a Romanesque tower and reredos of the Renaissance period. Amongst the other old buildings of the town, the
church
  of St Hippolyte, of the first half of the 15th
century
 , and a convent-church serving as corn market are of some
interest
 . The tribunal of first instance belonging to the arrondissement is at Arbois. Poligny has a sub-prefecture, a communal college and a school of dairy instruction. Under the name of Polemniacum the town seems to have existed at the time of the Roman occupation.


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